The Legal Construction of Poverty: Gender, 'Work' and the 'Social Contract'

Published: Feb 8, 2012
Abstract
This Paper attempts to provide a broad thematic framework for discussing critical and sometimes controversial issues in the field of law and poverty. Using gender as the lens through which to view a late 20th century version of social contract theory, the Paper discusses how blindness toward gender consequences of social policy and legal rules: (i) obscures the roots of poverty that are in part constructed by common law background legal rules of...
Paper Details
Title
The Legal Construction of Poverty: Gender, 'Work' and the 'Social Contract'
Published Date
Feb 8, 2012
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